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Example sentences for "lures"

Lexicographically close words:
lurchers; lurches; lurching; lure; lured; lurid; luridly; luring; lurk; lurke
  1. How about that lovely, untootered savage that you lures into your foul clutches so's you can make yourself king of Aranuka?

  2. Through fire-red clouds the sun shines fair, A bird sings sweet and lures the bride; Pray what concerns your dread despair To maidens fair and dear beside?

  3. A bird sings sweet and lures the bride, A net for fishes there is spread; A maiden fair and dear beside, A sprightly maiden would I wed.

  4. Sweet are the notes of the flute, when the fowler lures the bird to his nest.

  5. For Love always beckons over insurmountable barriers to uninhabitable realms; promises insupportable possibilities; lures to an unimaginable goal.

  6. From the tempting lures of wealth and pride, Sure thy woman's heart must some pity own For one who breathes for thy self alone, And who would brave suffering, grief and toil To win from thy rose lips one shy, sweet smile.

  7. The lady meanwhile lures the mob, alike Ogles the bursters of the horn and drum.

  8. Then follows a long scene in which she lures on the old King until he is hopelessly infatuated with her beauty.

  9. Joyfully and daringly we look to the distant musical horizon that lures us onward, and are not afraid of the verdict.

  10. Yet men seem for ever to fly from their destiny of inevitable beauty; because of delay the power invites and lures no longer but goes out into the highways with a hand of iron.

  11. In world may come romance, With all the lures of love and glamour; And woesome tragedy will chance To him whom fairy forms enamour.

  12. Adjoining the hawks' apartment should be another small room, where lures and spare "furniture" can be kept.

  13. But if there is more than one hawk out, it will be found almost necessary, and certainly convenient, to use lures as well.

  14. In it are conveyed the hawks which are not for the time being in use, and also spare lures and other furniture and properties, not forgetting the luncheon-basket.

  15. But as soon as the passager is nearly overhead, and the shrike has hidden himself, it is time to let loose the pole strings and let the very live lures attached to it also bolt into shelter.

  16. And there they remained, staring at the well-garnished lures which were laid out underneath, declining to go down, taking short flights from tree to tree, and cruising about in the air.

  17. Of course when live lures are used pains will be taken to make the process as little disagreeable as possible to the creature whose life is risked.

  18. After a few morsels have been distributed, these lures can be thrown down for all the hawks except one, which may finish her meal on the fist.

  19. If the lure system is chosen, the trainer goes to the hack field at feeding-times with as many lures as there are hawks at hack.

  20. It is only when that quarry has saved itself that the temptation to check occurs, and at that moment there are, or ought to be, lures waving near at hand.

  21. I love not, hate not: right and wrong agree: And fangs of snakes and lures of doves to me Are vain, are vain, Nirvana.

  22. The other is a celestial power endued with lofty and generous passion: she cares for none save men, and of them but few; she neither stings nor lures her followers to foul deeds.

  23. What in adventure, lures to bring you here, Where peril, labor are?

  24. So,” he said musingly, “here is one of the great lures which have moved the world since the dawn of history.

  25. Lorelei, or the mermaiden, that lures the fated victim.

  26. And all the while, lest inertia raise its head, he lures the reader with the glimpses of pails full of rich golden honey.

  27. It lures to allegory, this checkered board, these jousts and far crusades.

  28. So Lamb, in the exquisite reverie, "Dream Children," casts his vision into the dreamy cadence that lures us into his very mood.

  29. But the wanton lures me to a village far from the road on the other side of the gorge.

  30. It lures me as the stream; it cheats me with a name.

  31. The shadow lures a child monstrosity out on to the railway track, after he has caused the elders to leave the gate open, and the train, made very human, kills the child.

  32. He lures the rabbi away from his wife, from God, and from all virtue, yet to see him at the end turn away again in spirit to the good, spurning the tempter whom he recognizes at last as daemonic.

  33. The personality of the vampire may vary, in one line of stories being a young woman who lures men to death, in the other a man who must quench his thirst with the blood of brides.

  34. We brought home two complete sets of tackle for this kind of fishing, two lines without rods and twelve lures or hooks.

  35. Two peculiar lures from Utkiavw[)i]n, are No.

  36. We were informed that these lures were also used for catching small fish, trout, smelts, and perhaps grayling in the rivers in summer.

  37. When, as summer lures the swallow, Pleasure lures the heart to follow-- O weak heart of little wit!

  38. Curst, yea, thrice accurst, The hope that lures one on from last to first With vain illusions that no time fulfills!

  39. Soon there supervenes a deadly fear--a horror which makes the hair stand on end; so that the said pleasurable feeling at the commencement would seem to be the fascination of temptation with which the Spirit World lures us on and ensnares us.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.